I hope you have time to relax and rejuvenate during this holiday period.
I haven’t posted a masterclass for a while and I’ve missed them! Today’s class was recorded at the Oxford Piano Festival and was streamed live on July 31st 2022. Founded in 1999, this festival offers the opportunity for young pianists to work with esteemed pianists and piano pedagogues from around the world. Held at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St. Hilda’s College at Oxford University, the festival runs for the last week of July each year. You can find out more about it here.
The following class, split over two videos, features the renowned pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, who works with three students on the following repertoire: ‘La Leggierezza’ and ‘Un Sospiro’ from Trois Etudes de Concert, S. 144 by Liszt, Nos. 5 – 9 of the Etudes-Tableux, Op. 39 by Rachmaninov, and the first movement of Rachmaninov’s ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 18. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
An instructive masterclass is always interesting, we can still learn something from it and it can improve our piano playing even more. Thank you very much for posting Melanie!
It’s a pleasure, Martin. So pleased that you found this post useful. Melanie 🙂